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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Memphis, TN

April 3, 1998Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 12:52 AM CST for Monroe County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 3, 1998, 12:52 AM CST (06:52 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 1998, 1:25 AM CST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Memphis, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1998-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1998-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 12:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGGibson, Weakley47 min
Apr 3, 12:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCarroll51 min
Apr 3, 12:31 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGWeakley34 min
Apr 3, 12:49 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGHenry31 min
Apr 3, 2:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLauderdale45 min
Apr 3, 2:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTipton48 min
Apr 3, 2:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette, Haywood33 min
Apr 3, 3:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGFayette, Hardeman, Haywood30 min
Apr 3, 3:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGDyer, Gibson34 min
Apr 3, 3:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGChester, Henderson34 min
Apr 3, 4:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGHardin, McNairy44 min
Apr 2, 11:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTallahatchie48 min
Apr 2, 11:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPanola34 min
Apr 3, 1:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGUnion61 min
Apr 3, 1:15 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLowndes30 min
Apr 3, 2:09 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGTishomingo31 min
Apr 3, 1:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGPoinsett34 min
Apr 3, 1:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGCraighead48 min
Apr 3, 2:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGMississippi30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.